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Call for efforts to promote open access platforms....

'The world is yet to transform into a community that believes in the free dissemination of information.'

A decade has passed since the signing of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), but the world is yet to transform into a community that believes in the free dissemination of information and in knowledge as a public good. The scientific and academic community needs to spur policy makers to switch to Open Access platforms, according to Leslie Chan, head of the Department of Social Sciences, University of Toronto.

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Permalink Reply by Veeresh Hiremath on December 18, 2012 at 22:32

Open access/democratization of information is still a long way to go I feel looking at the attitude of the policy makers.

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